GROWING up with two of the nations favourite performers has obviously rubbed off on would-be pop idol Matthew Healy, who has stunned schoolmates with his own stage magic.

Matthew - whose parents are Auf Weidersehen Pet star Tim Healy and Coronation Street landlady Denise Welch - took to the stage at the King's School, Macclesfield, to compete in a charity song contest.

As he belted out The Las' "There She Goes" and the Oasis classic "Don't Look Back in Anger", his charm and talent shone through.

And the 12-year-old youngster was voted the winner in the school's competition to find a pop idol. The competition may not come with a six-figure record deal or nationwide acclaim, but it is the youngster's first step towards a pop career.

And he is following in his father's footsteps. Mum Denise, who played Natalie Barnes in The Street and has appeared in Stars In Their Eyes as Petula Clarke, says Matthew has picked up vocal talents from his father, who has five-piece and 10-piece bands.

She told the Manchester Evening News: "As actors we all do bits and pieces of singing, but I'm really not very good. Tim is the singer out of the pair of us."

And Tim said: "I started as a comedian-cum-soul singer. In other words, I reverted to a song when I wasn''t getting any laughs, which was more often than I care to remember.

"I've still got a five-piece and a 10-piece band that do the circuit." Matthew, it seems, is now set to carry on the family tradition, by seeking his own celebrity career. He said: "I'd like to be a musician, not necessarily a pop singer. But I am really just concentrating on my schoolwork for now. "I love bands like Green Day, Blink 182 and The Voo Doo, but I also love it when my dad plays Otis Redding and other singers from the 1960s and 1970s." Teacher Richard Kitzinger, who organised the competition in the wake of ITV's Pop Idol finals, said: "We can't offer Mathew a six-figure contract, but he does go through to play in a Stars In Their Eyes final, competing against some of his teachers, whom I understand will be turning out as Hear 'Say."